Theme: Humility – Pharisee and Publican Service Folder📖🔍 ✞ Luke 18:9-14 ▪ ✞ Matthew 9:9-13 The lowly tax collector who prayed, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner!” was the one who went down to his house justified before God, not the respectable, outwardly righteous Pharisee who trusted in himself and his own good living (Luke 18:9–14). The one who penitently despairs…
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Sermons on Matthew
Service Folder📖🔍 Service Folder (print) Jeremiah 23:21-32 ▪ Romans 8:12-17 ▪ ✞ Matthew 7:15-23 There are two ways – one is a broad way that leads to destruction and the other is a narrow way that leads to life. Along the way are false prophets who, like ravenous wolves entice souls to leave the narrow way for the broad way. Though they…
Service Folder Service Folder (print) Our Only Hope Is in Christ’s Righteousness “Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matt 5:20). God demands nothing less than perfection and holiness from you in regard to His commandments (Ex. 20:1–17). Your only hope, then, is not in your own goodness but in the…
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Hymns Service Folder This Sunday is Palm Sunday, marking the entrance into Holy Week. The lessons for the day: The Bronze Serpent (Numbers 21:4-9) Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, (Matthew 21:1-11) and Jesus’ Humiliation and Exaltation (Philippians 2:5-11) all weave together to preview Holy Week and what it means for our salvation. Children present for the service are invited to proceed in…
Service Folder Today we are reminded that we are tracking through a barren dry wilderness. We see this in all three of our readings: first, with the children of Israel tracking through the wilderness to the Promised Land of Canaan, second, with a woman suffering affliction from the devil because her daughter is demon-possessed; and third, with the world that defiles…
Service Folder The children of Israel were trapped between Pharaoh and the Red Sea. God gave them a way out, parting the Red Sea before them and drowning Pharaoh and his army. We, too, were trapped – trapped by the devil in sin. God provides the way out through the waters of baptism, baptized into Jesus, delivering us from the devil and…